Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-07-14
ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN.


left twenty-three thousand dollars to
Dartmouth College.
KATE SANBORN, the well-known
writer and newspaper correspondent
is niece of Daniel Webster.
WOMEN are the State librarians of
Indiana, Iowa. Kentucky, Louisiana,
Michigan. Mississippi and Tennessee.
The Marquis of Northampton has
placed his Clerkenwell property under
the supervision of lady visitors, to be
appointed by Miss Octavia Hill.
DIR. MARS E. BATES. regarded as
one of the best surgeons IN Chicago,
was the first woman to graduate from
medical college in that city. She has
large practice.
MRS. HELEN CAMPBELL, since her
prisoners of Poverty" called attention
to the sufferings of poor sewing women,
has received hundreds of applications
from people who want seamstresses.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE has pub
lished an appeal to the woman of
England to help in providing central
home and adequate organization for
the WOmen's Protection and Provident
League.
THE town councils of twenty Scotch
towns have this year petitioned Parlia-
ment to grant suffrage to women.
Among them are Edinburgh. Dun
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gov and Stirling.
Miss WINIFRED EDGERsoN. who re-
ceived the degree of Phi. d. from Co.
lumbia College last year, is the teacher
of mathematics in the New York
school of which Miss Rose Elizabeth
Cleveland has become the associate
principal.
LADY HARBERToN lately gave lect-
ure on dress reform, to ladies only, in
the Crystal Palace. The room was
crowded, and lady who attended as
an agent of Worth, the great Paris
dressmaker, expressed herself much
pleased with the costume invented by
Lady Harberton.
Miss LEILA j. ROBINSON, of the Suf-
folk County (Mass.) bar, thinks the
West offers better opportunities than
the East to a woman lawyer, and that
the further West one goes, the more
favorable the condition becomes. Ore
gon and Washington Territory she
thinks the best field of all.
Mrs. MARTHA j. LAMB. editor of
the Magazine of american History. is
a member of thirteen learned societies,
life-member of the American His.
torical Society and Fellow of the
Clarendon Historical Society of Edin.
burgh. She is said to be very modest
and unassuming little woman.
Mrs. ERNEST HART has done much
to helf the suffering Donegal peasantry
by system of cottage industries.
Glove-kuitting, crocheting and en-
broidcry give many poor Irish women
u chance to earn few shillings to help
the family fund. Mrs. Hart is also
trying to revive the lace-making indus
try in Ireland.
The EMPRESS OF CHINA issued q de-
cree, Just before her retirement, adj
vocating the development of the min
ing resources of the empire. She adj
ministered a severe rebuke to the pro.
vincial authorities who have thrown
difficulties in the way Of working the
mines, and warned them That such
conduct would not be tolerated.
CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG says that
an American girl need not study
abroad to become q professional
singer, but can learn in this country, if
she will work hard. give up most Of
the pleasures young people prize.
study dramatic action as well as sing.
ing. and give her whole time to prep
aration. Her general health must be
watched over as carefully rs her voice.
She must eat nourishing food. take
plenty of exercise, and get nine hours
sleep.
Women at the Polls.